Annual Arts Basic Survey, 2013 [United States] (ICPSR 36412)

Citation

National Endowment for the Arts, United States. Bureau of the Census, and United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service. Annual Arts Basic Survey, 2013 [United States]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-08-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36412.v1

This data collection is comprised of responses from two sets of survey questionnaires, the basic Current Population Survey (CPS) and a survey administered as a supplement to the February 2013 basic CPS questionnaire. The supplement, on the topic of public participation in the arts in the United States, was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The CPS, administered monthly, collects labor force data about the civilian noninstitutional population aged 15 years old or older living in the United States. Moreover, the CPS provides current estimates of the economic status and activities of this population which includes estimates of total employment (both farm and nonfarm), nonfarm self-employed persons, domestics, and unpaid helpers in nonfarm family enterprises, wage and salaried employees, and estimates of total unemployment. The basic CPS data are provided on labor force activity for the week prior to the survey. In addition, CPS provides respondents' demographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, marital status, educational attainment, family relationship, occupation, and industry.

In addition to the basic CPS questions, the February 2013 Annual Arts Basic Survey (AABS) questions were asked of the CPS respondent and spouse as well as another randomly selected household member aged 18 or older and his/her spouse. About one-quarter of the sampled households were asked the supplement questions. Interview numbers 3 and 7 were asked the supplement questions. If the selected person had a spouse or partner then questions were also asked of the spouse/partner. The supplement contained questions about the sampled member's participation in various artistic activities from February 2012 through February 2013. Questions were asked about the type of artistic activity attended including attending a live music, theater, or dance performance. Questions also included attending a live book reading or a poetry or storytelling event, an art exhibit, going to the movies or to see a film, or taking any lessons or classes in music or music appreciation. Interviews were conducted during the period of February 17-23, 2013. The total sample size of the 2013 AABS was 150,827 Americans, ages 18 and older.

National Endowment for the Arts, United States. Bureau of the Census, and United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service. Annual Arts Basic Survey, 2013 [United States]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-08-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36412.v1

Users are strongly encouraged to refer the User Guide (produced by the Principal Investigators), which contains the questionnaire for the supplement, as well as additional detailed technical documentation regarding the study design, sampling frame used, and response rates.

The universe statements for each variable are defined in either the basic or supplement record layout, which is located in Attachment 6 and 7, respectively, of the User Guide.

The "Basic CPS Record Layout" section in the CPS User Guide (see Attachment 6) contains many FILLER variables and a couple PADDING variables with column locations. Also, only 1 FILLER variable was found in the data that ICPSR received, and ICPSR removed the FILLER variable. As a result, the column locations in any ICPSR-released data product (e.g., codebook and setup files) will have column locations that are not consistent with locations described in the CPS User Guide.

Please note that missing values and their labels for the CPS variables are not the same as the missing values and labels for variables in the AABS Supplement.

Due to the limit in the number of allowable columns of 256 in Excel 97-2003 (file ending, xls), the Excel file being distributed with this collection is in the later version of Excel (file ending of xlsx).

The AABS supplement was administered to about one-quarter of the eligible CPS households. These were the households that were in the exit round of the CPS sample rotation. Computer-assisted personal interviews and computer-assisted telephone interviews were conducted during the period of February 17-23, 2013. If the selected person had a spouse or partner then questions were also asked of the spouse/partner. Altogether, 150,827 respondents were interviewed for the 2013 AABS Supplement.

The current CPS sample is selected based on 2000 census information. The first stage of the 2000 sample design
created 2,025 geographic areas called primary sampling units (PSUs) in the entire United States. These PSUs were
grouped into strata within each state. Some of these PSUs formed strata by themselves and were in sample with
certainty, which is referred to as self-representing. Of the remaining nonself-representing PSUs, one PSU was
selected from each stratum with the probability of selection proportional to the population of the PSU. A total of
824 PSUs were selected for sampling. The second stage of the sample design selected housing units within these
PSUs.

Approximately 72,000 housing units are assigned for interview each month, of which about 60,000 are occupied
and thus eligible for interview. The remainder are units found to be destroyed, vacant, converted to nonresidential
use, containing persons whose usual place of residence is elsewhere, or ineligible for other reasons. Of the 60,000
occupied housing units, approximately 7 percent are not interviewed in a given month due to temporary absence
(vacation, etc.), the residents are not found at home after repeated attempts, inability of persons contacted to
respond, unavailability for other reasons, and refusals to cooperate. The interviewed households contain
approximately 108,000 persons 15 years old and over, approximately 27,000 children 0-14 years old, and about
450 Armed Forces members living with civilians either on or off base within these households.

The AABS was conducted as part of the CPS. The supplement was administered to about one-quarter of the sample of CPS households. Interview numbers 3 and 7 were asked the supplement questions. If the selected person had a spouse or partner then questions were also asked of the spouse/partner.

The basic CPS universe consisted of all persons aged 15 years and older in the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States living in households. The 2013 AABS supplement universe is comprised of persons 18 years of age or older from about one-quarter of the eligible CPS households.

The effect of nonresponse cannot be measured directly, but one indication of its potential effect is the nonresponse rate. For the February 2013 basic CPS, the household-level nonresponse rate was 10.4 percent. The person-level nonresponse rate for the Annual Arts Basic Survey supplement was an additional 13.1 percent.

Since the basic CPS nonresponse rate is a household-level rate and the Annual Arts Basic Survey supplement nonresponse rate is a person-level rate, we cannot combine these rates to derive an overall nonresponse rate. Nonresponding households may have fewer persons than interviewed ones, so combining these rates may lead to an overestimate of the true overall nonresponse rate for persons for the Annual Arts Basic Survey supplement.

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

National Endowment for the Arts, United States. Bureau of the Census, and United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service. Annual Arts Basic Survey, 2013 [United States]. ICPSR36412-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-08-30. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36412.v1

2016-08-30 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: